Yahoo Has Hit a New Low...

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Military tactics, arms, helped rescue Ala. hostage - Yahoo! News
It is one thing to give a liberal slant on ...

"A first rate man with a third rate gun is far better than the other way around". The gun is a tool, you are the craftsman that makes it work. There are those who say "if I had to do it, I could" yet they never go out and train to do it. Don't let stupid be your mindset. Harryball 2013

Does seem heavily slanted toward the "combat" scenerio. And Seabees as a "special" naval construction unit? How about "the" naval construction unit. And I don't what the drones overhead is all about when the LEOs could walk right up to the bunker door. The drones I worked with were far too high for anyone to realize they were overhead.

Pehaps what the OP is reading into this story is the over use of Military style tactics.

It could be misconstrued as a glimpse of things to come should someone in favour of gun rights be the target instead of the guy with the problems holed up with a hostage. I think also the implication of "practice" for when the confiscation of our guns will begin and maybe it is thought this is how it will go down.

I don't know, I am grasping at straws but it does seem to be an excessive use of force, but they needed to rescue this kid from someone with obvious problems. Maybe such a show of force will make others planning such a thing to maybe reconsider and this can be said it was a deterrent.

Does seem heavily slanted toward the "combat" scenerio. And Seabees as a "special" naval construction unit? How about "the" naval construction unit. And I don't what the drones overhead is all about when the LEOs could walk right up to the bunker door. The drones I worked with were far too high for anyone to realize they were overhead.

Just more yellow journalism and sensationalism.

Sensationalism gets your story read.

Why say "Police equipped with semi-automatic carbines...." when you can just as easily say "Paramilitary law enforcement personnel armed with deadly assault weapons...?